New English Translation

1 Corinthians 15:36-43 New English Translation (NET)

36. Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

37. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed – perhaps of wheat or something else.

38. But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

39. All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another.

40. And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

41. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.

42. It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.

43. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;